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Improving equity in the US health care system
In the US, behavioral health services tend to be separated from the physical health care system, which can create barriers to appropriate care. And people from racial and ethnic minority groups who have behavioral health needs experience greater barriers to treatment and are more likely than white people to face punitive outcomes rather than health care responses.


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Evidence in Action podcast: Wizdom Powell on Improving Mental Health Care
Wizdom Powell, chief purpose officer of Headspace, and cohost Kimberlyn Leary discuss America’s mental health crisis, Black masculinity, and creating culturally relevant health care systems that value people’s lived experience as evidence. Listen and subscribe today.



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